Mose Allison Quotes About Jazz
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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
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I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.
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I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
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